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v0.7.0 β€” Cauchy completeness of ℝ

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@afflom afflom released this 06 Jun 16:58

ℝ is now Cauchy complete β€” every regular sequence of reals converges. Pure Lean 4, no Mathlib, no sorry, axiom-clean, and choice-free.

With ℝ a commutative ring up to β‰ˆ (v0.6.0), this brick proves the constructive analogue of "ℝ is complete" β€” the foundation the transcendentals will stand on (a power series is exactly a regular sequence of its partial sums).

  • RReg β€” a regular sequence of reals: X j and X k agree within 1/(j+1)+1/(k+1) as reals (with the canonical index modulus 2/(n+1)).
  • Rlim β€” Bishop's diagonal limit n ↦ (X(4n+3))_{4n+3}. The 4n+3 reindex reads each real far enough out that the diagonal is itself a regular sequence of rationals (RlimSeq_regular), so Rlim X is a genuine constructive real.
  • Rlim_tendsTo β€” convergence with an explicit rate: X k β†’ Rlim X within 1/(k+1).
  • RTendsTo_unique β€” limits are unique up to β‰ˆ (via the generalized Archimedean lemma + the linear-bound criterion).

Choice-free. Because the regular-sequence data carries its own modulus, the diagonal construction needs no countable choice β€” the #print axioms audit shows only propext, Quot.sound, never Classical.choice. (For modulus-free Cauchy reals, completeness is independent of constructive ZF; carrying the modulus is what avoids that.)

Honesty. CI machine-verified green (the "Mechanized-honesty audit" step is success for the release commit): no sorry, no native_decide, no stray axioms. The crux (Hodge index on π•Š = RH) stays none β€” never asserted.

Status (fresh mid-2026 synthesis). RH remains open; there is still no accepted 𝔽₁-scheme theory realizing Spec β„€ Γ—_𝔽₁ Spec β„€ with an intrinsic intersection theory (the Feb-2026 Connes–Consani On the Jacobian of Spec β„€Μ„ is an Arakelov–Picard reinterpretation, not the square). The substrate makes the analytic half statable and checkable, never proven β€” proving Ξ»β‚™ β‰₯ 0 βˆ€n is RH.

Next (v0.8.0). The transcendentals β€” exp/log/cos via convergent series with rigorous rational error bounds, standing directly on this completeness.